Moi,
I would say the reason I haven't posted anything is that I've been busy, but I have just been spending a lot of time doing other things instead of keeping your guys updated. There has been a lot going on. Since the last time I posted, we have lost a game BUT won many more. I've gotten even closer to my teammates on and off the court.
While being in Kuusamo, I have realized that in the United States, I had received discrimination and emotional strife because of my natural hair. So many times, I heard my peers and family call my natural hair "nappy," which is a term that has been around for ages. When using it to emphasize the difference between straight, detangled, or silky hair, it had a derogatory meaning. As a child, I suppose to me; this connotation meant that my hair in its natural state was "bad."
Being here in Finland, I have a lot of time to be intimate with myself and understand my core values, beliefs, hobbies, interest, wants, needs. Establishing the importance of my hair is one. 💇🏾♀️Not because it is long, short, shiny, or detangled, but because it emphasizes that beauty is the combination of qualities and YOUR perspective of those qualities you possess. Confidence and assurance in who you are: reveal your idea of beauty. Isn't it weird that when we "see beauty," we can identify it on someone else usually before we can locate it in ourselves? 🧐We can go all day giving compliments to so many people and not think twice about what we told ourselves that morning when we looked into the mirror.
So I have started a new hobby. Every day (well, most mornings when I don't forget 😂-- I wake up, look in the mirror and I tell myself " You are the definition of beauty 💕" ( of course after I brush my teeth and wash my face….or before 🤷🏾♀️), not because I look in the mirror and see the acne that was there the night before clearing up,🤦🏾♀️but because when I look into the mirror I see more than a face. I see a young woman growing, maturing, loving, smiling, and laughing.🤩A young woman finding herself, loving who she is and who she is becoming.: as well as excited for the future. I encourage you to do the same. 🤗
I have started a hair journal. 📒 To track Do's, Don'ts, what conditioners, and moisturizers work. Not for people on the internet but for me. I want to know every inch of myself. I want to explore who I am entirely (emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, physically) So I can have complete comfort with who I am. Also, to be able to share that with someone so they can love evener inch of my "ALMOST" as much as I love myself. 🥰
I know a lot of you are wondering, "Are you going to try products in Finland? They have products for kinky and coiled hair?" Let me answer that for you, NO. But I will do the best with what I have. It is all about trial and error, right? If I can find what ingredients my hair likes, I can try moisturizers and deep conditioners that are more likely to work for my hair.
Side Note → → →
Being here in Finland 🇫🇮 , I have noticed that many people are taking an interest in my hair, and it has made me wonder why I haven't. It is not very prominent in this area, so the glances I get are quite impressive. 😅
In my mind, if I can be patient enough to learn to care for my hair, I can be patient enough to learn myself as I mature and grow.
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